Ajmer's one and only election
What happened
One party won nearly every seat in Ajmer's only legislative assembly election.
The Indian National Congress won 20 of the 30 seats on offer — a supermajority of the house.
Its vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate — was just 44.5%.
Independent candidates took just 4 seats, despite polling 34.9% of the vote.
What changed
This was the only election Ajmer's legislative assembly ever held — the state's entire electoral history is this single contest.
Some of its constituencies used a multi-member design, where a single contest elected more than one member to the assembly.
6 of its 24 constituencies worked this way.
Notable numbers
A few numbers from that election stand out.
The closest race was Masuda, Ajmer, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of just 46 votes.
The most crowded contest was Ajmer- I (South West, Ajmer, where 13 candidates stood for a single seat.
Turnout — the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot — peaked at 73.4% in Ajmer - Iv (Town Hall, Ajmer.
The biggest electorate was in Kekri, Ajmer, where 24,193 voters were registered to vote.
The backdrop
Ajmer's time as its own state was brief.
Ajmer, a Part C state created from the former Ajmer-Merwara province on 26 January 1950, held its only legislative assembly election on 27 March 1952. Under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Ajmer was abolished and merged into Rajasthan on 1 November 1956, ending its existence as a separate state.